Visiting Artist: Phoenix Park-Kim

Tickets: $7 adults, $5 senior/students, available at the
door one hour
before the concert. GC students/faculty/staff free with ID.

The Korean pianist, Phoenix Park-Kim, began playing the
piano at the age of
5 and gave her first public performance at 7 years old.
Since then she has
delighted audiences in recital, orchestral, and chamber
music performances. In
1997 she graduated summa cum laude from Yonsei University in
Seoul, where
she received in 1999 Bachelors degrees in both Piano
Performance and English
Literature. In 1999, she came to the USA to study with Dr.
Lian Tan at Miami
University on a full tuition scholarship, where she received
in 2001 a Masters of
Music and served as a graduate teaching assistant.. In 2005
she completed the
Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance at the
University of Missouri in
Kansas City, Conservatory of Music under the tutelage of Dr.
Robert Weirich and
served as his teaching assistant.

Phoenix Park-Kim has won numerous scholarship awards and
piano
competitions, including 1st place in the Miami Concerto
Competition, the
Jefferson City Concerto Competition and Kansas City
Philharmonia Concerto
Competition. In addition, she has also appeared as a soloist
with the Korean
Philharmonic Orchestra, Marion Philharmonic Orchestra and
the UMKC
Conservatory Orchestra.